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Better still to be riding it!

ANVIL! Like Spinal? Get this!

A day from Nagoya to Tokyo INCLUDING skiing? That sounds almost impossibly tight, unless it's just for 10 minutes!

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need th

Looking forward to hearing Chinese Democracy - after waiting 13 years or whatever,

W. is worth a watch.

Was that in Yamagata? (I recall it being Nagano, perhaps totally incorrectly).

...how dare you! At least twice a week!

Board for 8 years now. Can't believe I didn't vote.

Time flies, 8 seasons now

Shiga Kogen. Whenever I can.

I like a lively place. Too upmarket and it sometimes feels almost uncomfortable.

Come and ski emilia You are most welcome!

Just listening to it myself, good first impressions. St Anger was so bad.....

Some good early reviews: If nothing else, you could never accuse him of adding to the mountain of hype surrounding the band's re-formation. He certainly doesn't perform like a man entertaining serious doubts about anything - for all the pre-emptive discussion in the media about his inability to hit the notes he once could, Plant sounds fantastic, and retains an utterly magnetic and startlingly lithe presence on stage, kicking his microphone stand to the ground, dancing with a rather cheering abandon, even setting aside his celebrated distaste for the band's most famous and overblown song

So far? 0. (As in zero). I hope to hit 1 tomorrow, if I can get up early enough

I am hoping my season will start tomorrow.

I might be going. It will be my first time this season Look for the Led Zeppelin snowboard.

I really like Metallica, but can't imagine calling a child that!

Do you have one? If I had to choose one, it would just have to be Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven.

I don't love it, but it is BAD..... Aeon Flux. Even super sexy Theron can't save it.

Diary of a Rock n Roll Star by Ian Hunter. Mott the Hoople frontman putting out his dirty washing. Makes for an interesting read though. Anyone read that famous rock biog of the Motley Crue?

I spend a lot - usually on going out all the time. Not complaining though, usually have an excellent time.

The Led Zepellin DVD. Brilliant. Some Kind of Monster is a good laught too.

That was good - the one with Rebecca something-or-other? The Omen 666 is surely doomed to be shite.